Prison ordered in cocaine delivery case

7:51 PM,
Feb. 21, 2013

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Lavonte Jones was a minor player in a large-scale Oshkosh drug ring who sold crack cocaine to support his own drug habit.

Still, the amount of drugs he sold over time coupled with his inability to stay out of trouble after his arrest will mean the 26 year old will spend more than two years in prison.

"You're the dumb kid the dealers got to do their transactions and you were just doing it support your own habit," Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Scott Woldt said. "You were pedaling a lot of coke. And you stopped, but you were still committing crimes, still kept doing things that violate the law and ...